Riley Walz, the Jester of Silicon Valley, Is Joining OpenAI

The software engineer is famous for his online stunts. Now he’s joining the company behind ChatGPT to work on new ways for ...
Geeky Gadgets

Gemini’s Web Tool Makes Scrapers Look Outdated

What if extracting data from PDFs, images, or websites could be as fast as snapping your fingers? Prompt Engineering explores how the Gemini web scraper is transforming data extraction with ...
Wired

AI Bots Are Now a Significant Source of Web Traffic

The viral virtual assistant OpenClaw—formerly known as Moltbot, and before that Clawdbot—is a symbol of a broader revolution underway that could fundamentally alter how the internet functions. Instead ...
Springfield News-Leader

Hydrolix Launches Bot Insights to Combat AI Driven Bot Abuse and Unauthorized Content Scraping

Real-time insights combined with long-term trend analytics reveal how AI bots affect revenue, search traffic, and escalate origin and infrastructure costs. Most traffic on the internet is driven by ...
Searchenginejournal.com

Ask An SEO: Can AI Systems & LLMs Render JavaScript To Read ‘Hidden’ Content?

For this week’s Ask An SEO, a reader asked: “Is there any difference between how AI systems handle JavaScript-rendered or interactively hidden content compared to traditional Google indexing? What ...
The Verge

Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’

SerpApi says it can deliver Google search results for use by AI tools, but Google claims it’s illegally evading bot-blockers to steal copyrighted content. SerpApi says it can deliver Google search ...